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High-angle fire   /haɪ-ˈæŋgəl fˈaɪər/   Listen
High-angle fire

noun
1.
Fire from a cannon that is fired at an elevation greater than that for the maximum range.





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"High-angle fire" Quotes from Famous Books



... fight lying down, and so certain gallant but desperate spirits on board the England, which was lying under what was left of the Admiralty Pier, got permission to dismount six 3-pounders and remount them as a battery for high-angle fire. The intention, of course, was, as the originator of the idea put it: "To bring down a few of those flying devils before they could go inland and do more ...
— The World Peril of 1910 • George Griffith


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